Apache Superset
99 · HealthyData exploration and dashboarding platform from the Apache Software Foundation.
Open source Analytics
Plausible Analytics
99 · HealthyCookie-free, privacy-focused web analytics with a single-page dashboard.
Matomo
95 · HealthyLong-running web analytics platform with full data ownership and a plugin marketplace.
PostHog
94 · HealthyProduct analytics suite with event tracking, session replay, feature flags and experiments.
OpenReplay
93 · HealthySession replay and product analytics you can run on your own infrastructure.
Lightdash
93 · HealthyBI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
Metabase
88 · HealthyBusiness intelligence tool for asking questions of your database and sharing dashboards.
Umami
75 · StableSimple, privacy-friendly web analytics that runs on PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Directory / Analytics / Metabase
Metabase
Business intelligence tool for asking questions of your database and sharing dashboards.
Will it still be around?
Health 88/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Can a business use it freely?
Open source (copyleft)
AGPL-3.0 (core) + Metabase Commercial License for enterprise/. Details
Alternative to
Savings proposal
A 25-user team on Tableau Standard: 1 Creator + Viewers pays about $435 a month. Self-hosting Metabase costs about $264 a month to run plus $1,200 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 8 and saves about $4,956 over three years.
List price: Tableau Standard: 1 Creator + Viewers, billed annually. Creator $75, Explorer $42, Viewer $15 per user. The estimate assumes one Creator and everyone else a Viewer. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$4,956
Pays for itself
Month 8
Saved in year one
$852
Each month
$435 → $264
Show as a table
| Month | Tableau | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $1,200 | −$1,200 |
| Month 3 | $1,305 | $1,992 | −$687 |
| Month 6 | $2,610 | $2,784 | −$174 |
| Month 9 | $3,915 | $3,576 | $339 |
| Month 12 | $5,220 | $4,368 | $852 |
| Month 18 | $7,830 | $5,952 | $1,878 |
| Month 24 | $10,440 | $7,536 | $2,904 |
| Month 30 | $13,050 | $9,120 | $3,930 |
| Month 36 | $15,660 | $10,704 | $4,956 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Metabase usually means an app server, a database and a cache or worker. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Metabase (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 88/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 6830 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
100/100
- Top contributor wrote 11% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 38 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
53/100
- 85% of all issues are closed (3863 open, 22227 closed) (92/100).
- 7 of 26 recent issues got a reply or were closed (27/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
AGPL-3.0 (core) + Metabase Commercial License for enterprise/ · Open source (copyleft)
Code outside the enterprise/ directory is AGPL-3.0; enterprise/ needs a paid license.
OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
License text checked 2026-10-07: read it.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Paid Pro |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Paid Pro |
| Role-based access control | Paid Pro |
| Multi-tenancy | Paid Pro |
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 50k | Forks | 6.9k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 6.8k |
| Releases, 12 months | 50+ | Last release | today |
| Contributors | 389 | Active authors | 38 in last 100 commits |
| Open issues | 3.9k | Closed issues | 22k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.